About Inkscape:

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development.“

Installation of Inkscape 0.481

In Ubuntu 1010, 11.04 natty and LinuxMint:

Open terminal and type the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ricotz/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install inkscape

In other Linux Distributions:

For other linux distributions you can download Inkscape 0.481 from this link